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  • by Ana Carolina Lopes The middle to late 60’s was the moment of the establishment of the country rock scene in the United States. The genre chose sunny California as its office. The folk-rock, rock and roll, scenario was country rock’s neighbor. Los Angeles is the place where paths and lines would be crossed, stories

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  • by Ana Carolina Lopes [EN] He had only a purple suit, long black locks, a Rodhes keyboard, a microphone and a 40 thousand seat stadium waiting for him. On his back, the efforts of a 10 year career at the time and a fresh album that would become the best selling record in the history

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  • The music of the mountains

    by Ana Carolina Lopes Picture this: you’re a major rock star in the 1970’s. In Los Angeles, of course. Maybe New York. Social media didn’t exist yet, but you still can’t go anywhere without people chasing you. You need to record your next album. Label has been pressuring you. It needs to be top notch.

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  • by Ana Carolina Lopes February 3, 1959, is considered the day that music died. Five years and six days later would be considered the day that music came to life again and changed everything. On this day, in 1964, four skinny English rock and roll and pop boys in their early 20s, made their first

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  • It’s not all rock and roll

    by Ana Carolina Lopes “With a pinch of rock and a dose of roll” like the Queens of Noise, The Runaways, once said, you can get a lot of answers. But what happens when rock and roll leaves the room and a nice ballad takes place and introduces who you are and what you can

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  • by Ana Carolina Lopes Have you heard of Daisy Jones and The Six? Read the book? Seen the show? If you did, it all sounds and seems very familiar, right? Particularly to lovers of 60’s and 70’s music. If you look into Daisy and Billy Dunne’s relationship, superbly played by Riley Keough and Sam Claflin,

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  • Here comes Emerson

    by Ana Carolina Lopes Today was the final race of the 2023 Formula 1 season. The championship was set and Dutch-Belgian driver Max Verstappen is a three-time World Champion for Red Bull Racing. This post is also about me combining my two loves: music and Formula 1. The sport has a historical relationship with music,

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  • by Ana Carolina Lopes I think every woman, or everyone really, who loves music has wanted to be Penny Lane at some point. Not the mystical, center of tourism, probably annoyingly disturbing for locals, road in Liverpool. But the 1970’s muse, the band-aid, the one who inspires the music, created by Cameron Crowe in early

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  • Sticking it to The Man

    by Ana Carolina Lopes As a kid, I didn’t know anything about taxes, or how to cook, or how to drive. However, I knew (or hoped) I’d learn when I got older. And I did. But there’s one thing I remember feeling growing up, and it was fear of not having a favorite band. Or

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  • by Ana Carolina Lopes The first thing I ever bought with my first ever paycheck was a Beatles LP. “Rubber Soul”, one of my favorite records to this day. I was 18 years old and had just started studying journalism at university. I bought it from a man selling records, amongst other things, laid out

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